NEW YORK, July 23, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Mana Health's ManaPortal™ version 1.0.0, has achieved ONC HIT 2014 Edition Modular EHR certification, which designates that the software is capable of supporting eligible providers and hospitals with meeting the Stage 1 and Stage 2 Meaningful Use measures required to qualify for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). ManaPortal was certified on June 10 by ICSA Labs, an Office of the National Coordinator-Authorized Certification Body (ONC-ACB) and is compliant in accordance with applicable criteria adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS).

"As Meaningful Use continues to grow and evolve, we believe that giving patients an easy way to see their health data is a critical step in connecting patients and care providers," said Chris Bradley, CEO and co-founder, Mana Health. "ManaPortal easily integrates with an EHR or across numerous EHRs to make clinical and personal health data visible, shareable and valuable in an effort to improve patient engagement and deliver better care."

ICSA Labs, an independent division of Verizon, offers vendor-neutral testing and certification. ONC HIT 2014 Edition Certification is granted to those technologies that are capable of meeting the more rigorous testing criteria developed to support providers and hospitals who wish to demonstrate Stage 2 Meaningful Use, which focuses on the capability of health IT to deliver higher quality patient care and exchange clinical information securely.

ManaPortal's ambulatory certification number is 150064R00 and its inpatient certification number is150065R00. ONC HIT certification conferred by ICSA Labs does not represent an endorsement of the certified EHR technology by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

ManaPortal 1.0.0 meets the following ambulatory and inpatient certification criteria:

The additional software relied upon to comply with one or more of the ambulatory and inpatient certification criteria include: MedAllies Direct Solutions and ntpd.

The additional types of costs that an eligible provider or hospital would pay to implement this across one or many EHRs to attempt to meet meaningful use objectives and measures include, but are not limited to, monthly service fees, interface development or configuration fees, integration fees for health information exchange, management and support or third party database products to support patient education or other required patient services. EHR technology self-developers are excluded from this requirement.

About Mana HealthMana Health, Inc. is a New York-based Health IT company providing "The App Platform for Healthcare™", namely ManaCloud™. Mana is innovating the healthcare data layer with products to support the triple-aim goals of healthcare transformation. ManaCloud, a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), is a secure, HIPAA-compliant platform which unifies patient data from clinical, claims and patient-generated sources, and makes that data accessible through an easy-to-use unified API to enable a wide ecosystem of applications which deliver a higher quality of care. Mana Health has been recognized for its award-winning products and as an HIT innovator by Forbes, HIMMS Futurecare, Modern Healthcare and other reputable media and industry leaders. To learn more about Mana Health, visit www.manahealth.com.

About ONC CertificationThe ONC Certified Health Information Technology (HIT) program tests and certifies that HIT is capable of meeting the 2014 Edition criteria approved by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). The certifications include Complete EHRs, which meet all of the 2014 Edition criteria for either eligible provider or hospital technology and EHR Modules, which meet one or more — but not all — of the criteria.

About ICSA LabsICSA Labs, an independent division of Verizon, offers third-party testing and certification of security and health IT products, as well as network-connected devices, to measure product compliance, reliability and performance for many of the world's top security vendors. ICSA Labs is an ISO/IEC 17025:2005 accredited and 9001:2008 registered organization. ICSA Labs is NVLAP accredited as a Health IT Test Lab and is also an ONC-Authorized Certification Body (ONC-ACB) accredited by ANSI to ISO/IEC Guide 65. Visit http://www.icsalabs.com and http://www.icsalabs.com/blogs for more information.